Ye Chuan's movements clearly caught the attention of the wandering spirits. With shrill screeches, the spirits surged toward him!
"Pathetic insects." Ye Chuan raised his peachwood sword, channeling spiritual energy into it before slashing forward!
The blade erupted with chaotic spiritual power, its pitch-black hue devoid of any light, blending seamlessly into the darkness. In an instant, the attacking spirits were torn apart!
The screeches abruptly ceased. With just one strike, the entire corridor was cleared of spirits, leaving only faintly glowing essence orbs in the dim hallway.
After confirming no spirits remained, Ye Chuan waved his hand, and the essence orbs flew toward him, settling into the bottle Wang Yanran had given him.
"Hmm, not much here," he muttered, glancing at the bottle. Maybe it was because it was only the first night?
He checked the room number—he was currently in the West Building, and according to the rules he’d read earlier, there were six floors in total.
Well, might as well check the other floors.
Ye Chuan swept through each floor, noting that the layout was identical on every level, and the number of spirits was roughly the same.
Some doors had been smashed open by the spirits, and the stench of blood wafted out—clear signs that the occupants inside had already perished.
"..." Ye Chuan frowned slightly.
Honestly, he wasn’t used to this feeling—the sensation of fellow humans being slaughtered by monsters.
"Grrroooaaahh..."
The spirit responsible for the killings floated out, its arms dangling limply, covered in blood from fingertips to nails, dripping onto the floor.
The moment it spotted Ye Chuan, the spirit seemed to grow excited.
But in the next second, it was obliterated by Ye Chuan’s sword, leaving not even a trace behind.
Compared to those spirits, Ye Chuan was more like a grim reaper, cutting down every spirit that knocked on doors and collecting their essence orbs.
Five or six spirits per floor, totaling several dozen across six floors—and their quality wasn’t bad either.
"Decent, I guess." Ye Chuan sounded slightly disappointed. He wished he could encounter stronger spirits. These posed no challenge to his current strength.
Standing in the hallway, he pulled out his phone and checked the chat group. Messages had already piled up to 999+.
[No way, is someone out there hunting those ghosts? I heard their screams and then they just vanished!]
[Seriously? My neighbor just opened the door and got eaten alive by one!]
[It’s true! We saw it through the peephole—some guy just slaughtered all the ghosts!]
[Don’t believe it. I opened my door, and now there’s a ghost biting me. Waaaahhh!]
...
Meanwhile, in another dimension,
a chat group devoid of any players silently observed the events unfolding in the dormitory, exchanging messages of their own—
[What’s going on? Why is that guy from Room 444 so strong? Is he a high-level player?]
[Ugh, all those Level 1 ghosts got one-shot? Why does a newbie dungeon have someone like this?]
[Room 444 wasn’t supposed to have a player. No idea where this guy came from.]
[Damn it, now I won’t get to hear the newbies’ screams!]
[Hurry up, I want bloodshed! This isn’t what I signed up for!]
[Admin, deploy some stronger ghosts already!]
Soon, a user with an admin tag responded—
[Admin: Seems like there’s a minor bug in the game. An outsider suddenly appeared. No worries, we’ll handle it.]
[Do it fast! Kill him and I’ll send a tip!]
[Hehehe.]
...
After clearing out the spirits, Ye Chuan suddenly sensed something amiss.
Huh?
Black mist began spreading across the floor, and within moments, dozens of shadowy figures emerged!
Squinting in the dim hallway light, Ye Chuan could make out their faces—they were female ghosts clad in red!
And he could tell these red-clad ghosts were far stronger than the wandering spirits he’d faced earlier.
"This many?" Gripping his sword tighter, Ye Chuan’s hands trembled slightly.
Too… too…
Too perfect! So many essence orbs!
With a swing of his sword, a crescent of spiritual energy shot forth, slicing through two of the red-clad ghosts instantly. The rest, however, dodged with terrifying speed, closing in on Ye Chuan in a flash!
"Kekekeke!"
The lead ghost, her face a sickly gray, grinned cruelly as her claw, wreathed in sinister energy, slashed toward Ye Chuan!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A scream echoed—but it wasn’t Ye Chuan’s.
The moment the ghost’s claw touched him, a surge of dark power erupted from his body, melting the claw away.
Not only that, the ghost’s body deflated like a punctured balloon, drained dry by Ye Chuan’s spiritual energy until only an essence orb remained.
"What’s the point of speed when I’ve got magic immunity?" Ye Chuan flicked his peachwood sword, utterly unfazed.
The Chaos Indestructible Body, a peerless constitution, granted immunity to laws, rules, special abilities, magic, and spells—making him the natural nemesis of ghosts.
In other words—
Hard counters only.
Ye Chuan summoned his Qingfeng Sword and formed a hand seal. "Sword Flight."
Both the Qingfeng Sword and the peachwood sword transformed into streaks of light, hovering midair as they effortlessly carved through the remaining red-clad ghosts!
Screams filled the corridor before silence returned once more.
"Not bad. These ghosts were around mid Qi Condensation level—about as strong as Wang Yanran’s ghost king?" Ye Chuan collected the essence orbs with satisfaction.
This was a good haul.
Lilith’s favor was bound to skyrocket after this. He wondered what rewards he’d get.
After standing still for a moment and confirming no new threats appeared, Ye Chuan returned to his room.
The moment he sat on the bed, a window popped up before him.
[Full-Dive Adventure: You’ve survived the first day. Return to the real world? (Leaving won’t affect your adventure progress.)]
Seemed like Full-Dive Adventures worked the same as regular ones.
Surviving the first day (or dying) would end the adventure, allowing him to resume or choose a new destination the next day.
"Guess I’ll head back for now. I’ll continue tonight." Ye Chuan remembered he’d promised to take Qian Shuang and Lan Xiaoke to the amusement park tomorrow. He wasn’t sure how time flowed in the real world during adventures.
With a tap of his finger, Ye Chuan vanished from the dormitory.
Unbeknownst to him, the admins watching this scene reacted as if they’d seen a real ghost.
[What the hell was that?!]
[A high-level player? One who can jump between dungeons?]
[Impossible!]
...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
